Luke Hemsworth

A charming Australian actor, Luke Hemsworth was the older brother of Liam and Chris - three famously hunky brothers from Down Under who were poised to conquer Hollywood. Receiving his showbiz start as...
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Hollywood's Sexiest Man Alive, Chris Hemsworth, paid tribute to his actress wife as he collected the Excellence in Film Award at the 2015 G'Day USA Gala and Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts International Awards in Hollywood on Saturday night (31Jan15). The Avengers star and Elsa Pataky took time off from parenting duties to attend the annual gala and the Spanish actress had to listen as her husband's co-star Scarlett Johansson gushed about her man as she presented him with his latest accolade.
Recalling a moment when the Thor star fell asleep on a plane during The Avengers press tour, Johansson told the audience, "Chris decided to take a little cat nap. He collapsed into a giant perfect heap, his lion's mane gracefully falling around his prominent chiselled features."
And, hoping that "some of his stardust would drift my way", the actress added, "He's all at once sensitive and ferocious, otherworldly and grounded, is shockingly handsome and is surprisingly approachable. He is every man and like no man you've met before. He is versatile despite his physicality, which makes him a grade A movie star."
Hemsworth then took the stage at the event and gushed about his wife, Fast & Furious 6 star Pataky, calling her "the greatest thing I've gotten over the last few years", adding, "Thank you very much to everyone, but especially my wife."
Pataky is the mother of Hemsworth's daughter India Rose, two, and twin sons, Tristan and Sasha, who were born in March (14).
The actor's brothers Liam and Luke also joined the party, which was hosted by Nicole Kidman and Geoffrey Rush.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts also honoured Birdman as its Best Picture and Michael Keaton as Best Actor, while Still Alice's Julianne Moore landed the Best Actress award and J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) and Patricia Arquette (Boyhood) continued their winning streaks as Best Supporting Actor and Actress.

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When the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie came out, it seemed Hollywood had hit peak pirate attractiveness levels — Johnny Depp wearing black eyeliner, Orlando Bloom and Jack Davenport sent the hearts of middle school girls (and women of all ages probably) around the world a-fluttering. Now, the new Starz series Black Sails totally outshines all the Pirates of the Caribbean films put together. Apparently there is room for more attractive pirates in Hollywood.
Let’s start with the men: in the main cast we’ve got Luke Arnold as John Silver, Tom Hopper as Billy Bones, Zach McGowan as Captain Vane, and Toby Stephens as Captain Flint. For those who love tall guys, Hopper is 6’5” (yes, I absolutely looked that up). McGowan is shirtless in the first episode and has the body of Chris Hemsworth in the Marvel films. Stephens is a mix of Michael Fassbender and Damian Lewis (it’s a deadly combination). Meanwhile, Arnold has the bad boy smirk down, reminding us of that elusive older guy we crushed on in high school.
However, as much as the men of Black Sails are attractive, so are the ladies (though there aren’t quite as many). Hannah New plays Eleanor Guthrie, a take charge kind of woman who isn’t afraid to get in a guy’s face; Max, a smart and cunning prostitute, is played by Jessica Parker Kennedy; and the mysterious Anne Bonny, who hides under her hat most of the time, is played by Clara Paget. The women of Black Sails could definitely give the men a run for their money.
No matter what you’re into, it’s likely you’ll be attracted to at least one character on Black Sails — or all of the characters, that is totally possible as well. It has us wondering if a cast could be anymore attractive (we think not).
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When we last left our heroes, they had conquered all opponents in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, returned home to their newly refurbished living quarters in District 12, and fallen haplessly to the cannibalism of PTSD. And now we're back! Hitching our wagons once again to laconic Katniss Everdeen and her sweet-natured, just-for-the-camera boyfriend Peeta Mellark as they gear up for a second go at the Capitol's killing fields.
But hold your horses — there's a good hour and a half before we step back into the arena. However, the time spent with Katniss and Peeta before the announcement that they'll be competing again for the ceremonial Quarter Quell does not drag. In fact, it's got some of the film franchise's most interesting commentary about celebrity, reality television, and the media so far, well outweighing the merit of The Hunger Games' satire on the subject matter by having Katniss struggle with her responsibilities as Panem's idol. Does she abide by the command of status quo, delighting in the public's applause for her and keeping them complacently saturated with her smiles and curtsies? Or does Katniss hold three fingers high in opposition to the machine into which she has been thrown? It's a quarrel that the real Jennifer Lawrence would handle with a castigation of the media and a joke about sandwiches, or something... but her stakes are, admittedly, much lower. Harvey Weinstein isn't threatening to kill her secret boyfriend.
Through this chapter, Katniss also grapples with a more personal warfare: her devotion to Gale (despite her inability to commit to the idea of love) and her family, her complicated, moralistic affection for Peeta, her remorse over losing Rue, and her agonizing desire to flee the eye of the public and the Capitol. Oftentimes, Katniss' depression and guilty conscience transcends the bounds of sappy. Her soap opera scenes with a soot-covered Gale really push the limits, saved if only by the undeniable grace and charisma of star Lawrence at every step along the way of this film. So it's sappy, but never too sappy.
In fact, Catching Fire is a masterpiece of pushing limits as far as they'll extend before the point of diminishing returns. Director Francis Lawrence maintains an ambiance that lends to emotional investment but never imposes too much realism as to drip into territories of grit. All of Catching Fire lives in a dreamlike state, a stark contrast to Hunger Games' guttural, grimacing quality that robbed it of the life force Suzanne Collins pumped into her first novel.
Once we get to the thunderdome, our engines are effectively revved for the "fun part." Katniss, Peeta, and their array of allies and enemies traverse a nightmare course that seems perfectly suited for a videogame spin-off. At this point, we've spent just enough time with the secondary characters to grow a bit fond of them — deliberately obnoxious Finnick, jarringly provocative Johanna, offbeat geeks Beedee and Wiress — but not quite enough to dissolve the mystery surrounding any of them or their true intentions (which become more and more enigmatic as the film progresses). We only need adhere to Katniss and Peeta once tossed in the pit of doom that is the 75th Hunger Games arena, but finding real characters in the other tributes makes for a far more fun round of extreme manhunt.
But Catching Fire doesn't vie for anything particularly grand. It entertains and engages, having fun with and anchoring weight to its characters and circumstances, but stays within the expected confines of what a Hunger Games movie can be. It's a good one, but without shooting for succinctly interesting or surprising work with Katniss and her relationships or taking a stab at anything but the obvious in terms of sending up the militant tyrannical autocracy, it never even closes in on the possibility of being a great one.
3.5/5
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Simon Pegg is to play an assassin in a new Australian movie featuring Liam and Chris Hemsworth's brother Luke. Kill Me Three Times will also include Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer and Bryan Brown among the cast.
Principal photography begins this week (ends20Sep13) in and around Perth and the southwest region of Western Australia.
The movie is set in "a sun-drenched Australian surfing town, where a young singer, portrayed by Alice Braga, is the thread that binds three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge".
Pegg's assassin is hired by the wealthy husband of Braga's character, and Aussie movie veteran Brown plays a corrupt local cop. Luke Hemsworth portrays Braga's love interest.

Chris Hemsworth turned the Canadian premiere of his new racing drama Rush at the Toronto Film Festival into a family affair on Saturday (07Sep13) as he was joined by his brothers Liam and Luke on the red carpet.

Luke Hemsworth was the first of the brothers to find acting success in their native Australia, but he turned his back on a career in front of the cameras to launch a timber-flooring company.
Now he's hungry for the action again after landing a role in Aussie mini-series Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, and he is hoping to team up with his famous brothers.
He tells Entertainment Weekly, "That would be the goal - finding the right project that all of us can fit into. Try to do something funny."

The Thor star's wife Elsa Pataky gave birth to daughter India in London on 11 May (12), and Australian actor Hemsworth turned to his sibling, who is dad of two, for advice.
Luke Hemsworth tells U.S. celebrity website EW.com, "I actually made him a little video on how to wrap her up so that she can't get her arms out (of the blanket). He had a bit of trouble with her - she's a bit of a Houdini. So I made a little video of how we wrap up our baby, but he said she still escaped!"

Miley Cyrus has won the affections of fiance Liam Hemsworth's family and is the "perfect match" for the actor, according to his brother Luke.
The Hunger Games star and the former Hannah Montana sensation announced their engagement last month (Jun12), and now Luke Hemsworth has opened up about Cyrus' impending inclusion into the acting clan.
He reveals his two young daughters are in awe of their aunt-to-be, and insists Cyrus has made his sibling truly happy.
He tells U.S. celebrity website EW.com, "She's great. She loves our kids, and our kids absolutely love her. She won our hearts. I find her really interesting. I find her very articulate, and years in maturity above her age. But at the same time, she's very much like Liam. I think a lot of people don't realise that they are really, really in love. They actually are a perfect match in a lot of ways."

Summary

A charming Australian actor, Luke Hemsworth was the older brother of Liam and Chris - three famously hunky brothers from Down Under who were poised to conquer Hollywood. Receiving his showbiz start as a steroid-using athlete on the perennial Australian soap "Neighbours" (Seven Network, 1985; Network Ten, 1986-2010; Eleven, 2011- ), Hemsworth worked steadily as an actor in his home country, even after Liam and Chris moved to Hollywood to become American film stars. With their massive success, Hemsworth decided to explore his opportunities on an international scale as well, signing with Liam and Chris's management company and landing the starring role in the thriller "The Reckoning" (TBD). Cut from the same charismatic cloth as his younger brothers, Luke Hemsworth was poised to become a bigger star not just in his native Australia, but also around the world.